Overview: Frankenhooker (4K Ultra HD) brings Frank Henenlotter’s outrageous cult horror-comedy to 4K Ultra HD in a stunning new Dolby Vision restoration created from the archival uncut original 35mm vault materials.

When medical student Jeffrey Franken’s fiancée Elizabeth is accidentally decapitated by a remote-controlled lawnmower, his grief drives him to attempt the impossible. Using questionable medical expertise and body parts harvested from Manhattan street prostitutes lured by his homemade explosive drug Super Crack, Jeffrey reconstructs Elizabeth, only to discover that her resurrected mind has become dangerously unstable.

Combining graphic horror, outrageous comedy, and an irreverent twist on Mary Shelley’s classic Frankenstein story, Frankenhooker has become one of the defining cult films of the late 1980s. James Lorinz stars alongside Patty Mullen, Penthouse Magazine’s 1988 Pet of the Year, with supporting performances by Louise Lasser, Shirley Stoler, Jennifer Delora, Beverly Bonner, and horror television personality John Zacherle.

Synapse Films presents the uncut feature with a newly remastered 5.1 surround sound mix and an impressive collection of bonus features including an audio commentary with director Frank Henenlotter and make-up effects designer Gabe Bartalos, the Patty Mullen featurette A Salad That Was Once Named Elizabeth, A Stitch in Time: The Make-Up Effects of Frankenhooker, Turning Tricks: Jennifer Delora Remembers Frankenhooker, Jennifer Delora’s photo scrapbook, and the original theatrical trailer.

This region-free 4K Ultra HD edition presents the complete 85-minute feature and represents the definitive home video release of one of horror’s most beloved cult classics.

4K Blu-ray Verdict: Jeffrey Franken (James Lorinz) is a bioelectrical scientist who works at a power plant. His life in New Jersey was going so well until his fiancée Elizabeth’s (Patty Mullen) father (J. J. Clark) gives him a lawnmower as a wedding present. It goes wild - yes, really - and mows down Elizabeth!

Anyone else would move on or kill themselves. Not Jeffrey. He gets into self-trepanation, drilling holes into his own skull to take the edge off, as well as eating dinner surrounded by all of Elizabeth’s body parts that he could find. But hey, he knows circuits. So maybe he should leave New Jersey and go to New York City and kill sex workers to build his wife the perfect body, because that’s worked out so well in so many movies like The Brain That Wouldn’t Die.

Jeffrey rents all of Zorro’s (Joseph Gonzalez) girls for one night but gets second thoughts about giving them the super crack he’s invented. They find it, they smoke it, they blow up real good. And now Jeffrey has to assemble a puzzle of bloody body parts to create the perfect new body for his fiancée. She’s impressed but angry at where the parts came from and that she’s slept with - and blown to pieces - several clients before she got her memory back.

This ends with a monster made of sex worker parts dragging an evil pimp to a dungeon and Jeffrey’s head on another woman so that he and his bride can be in love forever. Now that’s creative! Another trip into the hellish New York City of Frank Henenlotter, this was a movie that screamed at you in the horror department of your mom and pop video rental place. Literally. The box could talk. The movie that was inside more than lives up to the marketing.

This has an awesome cast. Beverly Bonner shows up as Casey, the same character she played in Brain Damage, Basket Case and Basket Case 2. Elizabeth’s mother is Louise Lasser, the star of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. Horror host Zacherly is the weatherman. The girls of Zorro are played by Kimberly Taylor (Bedroom Eyes II), Charlotte J. Helmkamp (Playboy December 1982 Playmate of the Month), Jennifer Delora, Lia Chang, Susan Napoli (Penthouse Pet of the Month February 1986, AKA Stephanie Ryan in mainstream movies and Carrie McKayan in adult films), adult legend Heather Hunter, Gittan Goding, Vicki Darnell, Sandy Colosimo, Kathleen Gati and Sonya Hensley.

Oh, and just in case it bugs you as much as it did me to know, Spike the bartender, that’s the awesome Shirley Stoler from The Honeymoon Killers!

Bonus Materials:
Audio Commentary with Director Frank Henenlotter and Make-Up Effects Designer Gabe Bartalos
A Salad That Was Once Named Elizabeth - Patty Mullen Featurette
A Stitch in Time: The Make-Up Effects of Frankenhooker
Turning Tricks: Jennifer Delora Remembers Frankenhooker
Jennifer Delora’s Frankenhooker Photo Scrapbook
Theatrical Trailer

Frankenhooker | Official Trailer

Official Purchase Link

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